LevaData

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A decades-long lean manufacturing effort focused on minimizing costs, reducing inventories, and driving up asset utilization had removed buffers and flexibility to absorb disruptions. For those organizations who had already reduced their dependency on China, many had moved production to Malaysia. Keeping the lights on.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

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LevaData

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A decades-long lean manufacturing effort focused on minimizing costs, reducing inventories, and driving up asset utilization had removed buffers and flexibility to absorb disruptions. For those organizations who had already reduced their dependency on China, many had moved production to Malaysia. Keeping the lights on.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Software Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Optimization 52

Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2023

A published Future of Freight study sponsored by Deloitte in September 2022 indicated that U.S. the strategies were exploring nearshoring of prior foreign production, diversifying supplier networks and adding additional contingency inventories. We pointed out that in 2022, more U.S. customers increased to a level of $41.8

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Most companies weren’t buying from China or Taiwan or Malaysia like they are today.”[4] Point of sale data tracks exactly how many black shirts in size medium were sold yesterday, then meshes with inventory management technology to generate demand predictions that then prompt production of more (or less). Footnotes. [1]

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

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